Re: Successful and not successful completion

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:00

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In <40iqa1$4eg@gap.cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:

>43, F for 44, and ? for 45-47.  Similarly, messages 1-7 are
>"%SYSTEM-x-NORMAL, normal successful completion", while 0 is
>"%NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000".  Note:  The C RTL, in a fit of
>accomodation to Unix, converts an exit status of zero to 1.

Nope.  It does this in a fit of ANSI/ISO C compliance.  Before the ANSI
standard (and some time after :-) the VMS C RTL couldn't care less about
the Unix conventions WRT exit status codes.

Dan
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